With Briatore having been found guilty of developing the plan that saw driver Nelson Piquet Jr. deliberately crash to aid team-mate Fernando Alonso in last year's Singapore Grand Prix, Briatore has received a lifetime ban from Formula One as well as any other FIA championship.
"I am distraught," the 59-year-old is quoted as saying by Italian publication Gazzetta dello Sport, with legal action against the FIA remaining a possibility.

With Briatore having been found guilty of developing the plan that saw driver Nelson Piquet Jr. deliberately crash to aid team-mate Fernando Alonso in last year's Singapore Grand Prix, Briatore has received a lifetime ban from Formula One as well as any other FIA championship.
"I am distraught," the 59-year-old is quoted as saying by Italian publication Gazzetta dello Sport, with legal action against the FIA remaining a possibility.

If anyone can dig out all the FIA skelletons, it would be Briatore. He might be bitter enough to bring them down.

Flavio Briatore has vowed to get even with the Formula One insiders who engineered his downfall from the position of Renault team principal. "I have been betrayed by my own world," he told La Repubblica newspaper. "In the end I will win and you'll see we will have a great party. It will be organised well and we'll invite all the people who have stayed with me during these tough times."